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TV Review: The Mandalorian Season 1 – Mega Review
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation It has been over 3 years since the first season of The Mandalorian first aired back in late 2019 as the first real “killer app” for Disney+. In fact, Disney was so confident in The Mandalorian as their big show that they launched the service with the program premiering on…
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Film Review: Cocaine Bear
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation The only question that is going through your mind when asking yourself “should I see Cocaine Bear” is whether or not like the words “cocaine” and “bear” in the same sentence. If so, then honestly, you don’t really need this review cause you are probably interested and seeing it anyways.…
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Film Review: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
By Matthew Moorcroft Unsure Um… what? Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania feels like it should be better then it actually is. It’s filled to the brim with cool ideas and wicked imagery, fully taking advantage of the “Tales to Astonish” serial origins of it’s character and Steve Ditko’s playful yet completely earnest designs. Sure, it…
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TV Review: The Last of Us, Episode 4
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation About partway through this episode of The Last of Us, Joel and Ellie are attacked by a group of what they assume to be raiders. Joel tries to fend them off while Ellie goes into hiding, but Joel is cornered and nearly chocked to death. Ellie comes to his rescue…
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TV Review: The Last of Us, Episode 3
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation Oh wow. The praise going into this episode of The Last of Us was near overwhelming to the point where I was worried it wasn’t going to live up to it. It’s easy to get swept up in hype and lose the bigger picture, and I like to keep a…
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TV Review: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Episode 7
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Immediately The Retreat stands out as a stronger then usual episode of the show for a couple of reasons. From it’s opening montage depicting Jen’s new lease on life after finding somebody she genuine connects with – only to immediately lose it as soon she sleeps with him. And then…
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TV Review: The Last of Us, Episode 2
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation “Bomb the whole city.” Those are the chilling words delivered at the cold open of this episode, and it’s fitting then that, in the same episode, it ends in a massive explosion to wipe out a horde of infected that is coming towards Joel and Ellie. It’s also fitting then…
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TV Review: The Last of Us, Episode 1
By Matthew Moorcroft Highest Recommendation The discourse surrounding so called “cinematic video games” is so pervasive nowadays that it’s genuinely hard to remember a time where The Last of Us, originally released in 2013, was seen as revolutionary achievement. And while many games have tried to replicate it’s cinematic, one-take approach to storytelling to varying…
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TV Review: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Episode 6
By Matthew Moorcroft Solid Recommendation Out of every MCU shows we’ve had so far, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is the hardest to sustain a conversation about. Not because it’s bad, mind you – the show, as a whole, continues to be an entertaining and funny in all of the right ways – but because simply…
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A Much Needed Update
By Matthew Moorcroft Definitely think we could use more of these, just so people know what’s going on. We are about a month into 2023 and life already seems to have, both metaphorically and literally, decided to make itself tough. Lots of emotional baggage and personal stuff have come to a head this month, along…
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